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The Yellow Jasmine.

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Bayard a picturesque career sug. geata. the question, "What figure in into a smile. Jasmine is my private. I worked myself the other day the history of this country comes by chanting a hymn of praise to the nearest to the perfect knight of our English mimosa (writes James France? Setting aside all the Douglas in the "Daily Express.") myths of Arthur's table, I think the "Pooh," you grow!, "there is no vote must go to Cameron of Lochiel mimosa in our grey winter." Walt Very different were the surround a bit! The English mimosa is yel ings of Bayard and of Lochiel. The low jaamine. I back it against all to English tastes: it must carry aromatice of the ancient Highland the mouldy mimosa that comes from perfection the comfort, freedom, kingdoms has

colour of its own. the land where the mistral blows.. personal service, and that good tasto Its themes are not, like those of the It is the quintessence of spring. It and "rightness" In small details romance of chivalry, of which had made English-home life and

love in the fame that heralds and har 'love's famous the world over. The great tales

adventure: its binges the sun. (like my

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and verb. A harbinger is a preqursor English hotels of the future would tokens, of soft lutes sighing in who harbinges, all sorts of hap- draw their inspiration solely from the bowers of ladies. of knights in piness. Let us all go on the har the centuries of cultured living golden armour glittering in the binge!) The yellow jasmine which had evolved English country list.

bas house life with its leisurely, friend-deep forests and mountain gorges,

It's scenes are, Ike Its own gone to my head, It is the flower of hope. The poets ought to atone ly atmosphere, and its sure and un- full of Gothic gloom and wavage for their unpardonable neglect of mistakable touch of England.

splendour. The Aery eroas wander this gay little bloom that loves the Tubes and Trama.

Ing like meteor over hills and val. old grey walls of the old thatched The tube, I say, is not even theore-leys, the gathering of the warlike cottages in the lonely old lanes. tically a substitute for the bus,clans, the glowing tartans, the They should sing golden jasmine You cannot jump off the tube, to badges, the terrific slogan, the glit songs.

The very name of this ter of the dirks and battle-axes sunny flower is a song of joy. greet a friend, or on to it to avold all its sights and sounds have in whisper it to myself between creditor. You cannot knock Ave minutes off a

them something wild and eerie, fromaneezes. "Jasmine, I say to my short journey by taking the tube; in all probability the fierce shriek of the pibroch in self and instantly catch the mus that amount of time la fest in wait the front of battle, to the mournful eles round my mouth mollowing into ing for your ticket, waiting for the wailing of the coronach above the a smile. Jasmine is

my private ift, waiting for the train. You can- dead man in his xhud-from the sesame. It opens the golden gates not avoid in the tube the shy man's music of barbaric weetness, to the the jasmine has the valour to break minstrel touching hip rude harp to

af galety in my January heart." nightmare, that of looking complete wide-eyed wizard wirding on his into deflant blossoms in the teeth strangers either in the face or in the robe of raw bull's hide and lying of winter, why should cower and boots. You cannot explore familiar corners of London; you the roaring of the lone cascade...

dowa to catch prophetic voices in mope in the mists of my dark mind? can capture the jasmine magic cannot enjoy the pageantry of theThe Ulysses of the Highlands" und gild my thoughts with living, shop windows. You cannot watch the title is he freak of fancy. There gold, the Lord Mayor's Show from the tube. Perhaps such considerations is no act, no exploit, of the hero of The Three Helfers. are not in themselves very imporly well sult the character of Lochiel: curious administrative court.

the Odyssey which will not perfect. The Council of tant, but it is the small liberties of Nothing is easier than to picturesided over by the Minister of Jus life which make it worth Hving him among the scenes of Homer: to tice. which France owes to Napo- Quod semper. qued abique, quod ab

see him. In the mind's eye. rising in leon-has presented diplomacy with omnibus-that noble motto of the Catholic Church ought to be adopted the hushed assembly of thoa new problem, says the "Manches- as a war-cry by the bus-lovers.chariot along the banks of

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gvoid the congestion. Quod ubique & upon the shingle among the whiten-Spaniards. With a sense of reality

it can go everywhere; some freshed bones of men. Strength, cour- street of residential houses springs

age, fiery vigour, n sagacity which that has its lesson for to-day, the into being, and a bus can ply pastuch was the character of the an-tration to fighting but loyally obey- was hever to be found at fault-communes not only preferred arbi- the doors without any effort of line-cient Wanderer, And such was the ed the decision given in 1375 that

aying alternative routes to some place of interest alternate, whereas

character of Lochiel.-H. Greena French payment of three heifers: the trams must all follow a set line haugh Smith Stranger than Fie-annually would be fair compenda- Quod ab omnibus--there are people

tion." (Newnes).

tion for the Spanish pasturage con- who like a ride in the open air;

sumed Time passed; France and there are people who resent the mo-

Spain became centra Hsed. mon- tion of trama, who find them dim-

archies and Great Powers not sel- cult to catch. when a run across a

dom at war, but the tribute, con- motor-infested street is involved;

tinued to be paid even when there are people to whom the laby-

Napoleon. thought he had conquered rinthine catacombs of the tube re-

Spain, and it was actually enshrined present an unwelcome effort of

In international law in the Bayonne sophistication, or irony, or even pedestrianism Father Ronald

Treaty of 1866. Knox."An Open-Air Pulpit" (Con-

By the opening "register" a good-looking look with- years of this century, however, the out being warned-as the Victorian stable & Co.)

village of Lannea-responsible for photographer would have warned one helfer-nad ceased to pasture her that she is looking "un Its cattle over the border, and innatural. One of the most amusing 1914 reftad to contribute its ani photographs I have recently seen is

The local authority, filled

Women and Religion.

DR,

WILLIAMS

PINK FALLS REMEDY

RHEUMATOR

WHY LET RHEUMATISM CRIPPLE YOU?

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is seen emerging from the leaves of a tree, and the result is quite fas- cinating. Another photograph re-

Consider if you will, how much the poorer a world this would be if there were no beautiful perfumes in 'it. The scent of the new-mown

with proper respect for scraps of of a "bright young person" whose hay the sanctifed aroma

The paper, fined the village the value type ia distinctly "ethereal" of incense;

of a heifer, which was purchased her disembodied. Eton cropped head photographer has arranged that the strong per- fume of coffee:

and sent with ita companions to the ex-

Spain. quisite fragrance of the white rose,.

Lannes appealed to the the night-scented stock, the mig

Chuncil of State, which regretfully nonette; the odour of wild thyme;

I decided that only diplomátic action the strong tang of the salt sea-all

could bring the village rollef. So cenály shown me was of a young these might have been omitted from:

between France and Spain there Ale-of which he is inordinately man who possesses a Roman pro- the universe. We ourselves should

arises the case of the three helfers proud. He likeness appears in the then never have missed all these

and if thirty years of Morocca have photograph on an enormous Roman wonders, for we should never have Whilat doctors are divided in opinion rendered their diplomatists", too kuown them. In some such case ar to the precise causes of the various weary to settle the matter them-. perhaps is the religious world of form of rheumatism, medical experi-selves, fresh work for Geneva. to-day, which accepts for the most ence has proved that the one and only The New Photography. part so acquiescently the absence of method of cure, as distinct from mere the ministrations of women. Nane temporary alleviation, is by tonic of us need waste much time.in om- treatment through the blood.. by phasising the need or otherwise of purifying and enriching the blood, thus the world to-day to receive more

eliminating poisonous humours there.

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Being photographed is no longer an uninteresting business (writes. Mary Mortimer in the "Evening Standard"). The soulless individual with a waxed moustache whom one

spiritual help. Not the meat, bigot- } from, and at the same time building used to visit by appointment and

ed of anti-woman sacerdotalists would rest the case against the exey cise of women's vocation upon any very high altitude reached by the world upon the present system. If the ministry of women be a right and good thing in itself, there is an

go forward.

the whole system. ม

This explains exactly

why Dr whose invariable stipulation was Williams Pink Pills for Pale People that one should look pleasant have proved so enormously successful whether it was natural for one to A. & specific for rheumatism, often in do so or not has given place now eminently a blood purifier and a blood graphy a more fucrative profession Its most severe. forms. They are pre-to the artist friend who finds photo- bulider; they not only eliminate impuri

which are distinctly attractive..

enormous field in, which labour can ties from the blood, but by rapidly in than painting, and who has methods

In this respect the creasing the red corpuscles they may The artist friend invites one ministry of religion is for women justly be said to actually make new lunch in order to discuss at length a unique calling, fon the over-rich blood. And through the blood crowding in almost every ather they impart frash strength to the and with the utmost sympathy the sphere of work is the most promin nerves.

background most suitable to one's ent economic feature of the day. sufferers all over the world, now strong personality which are most gratify- Thousands of former rheumatic "type," and expounds ideas-about The dearth of candidates for or i dination and the enormous flocks and well, thank Dr. William Pinking to one's vanity. Those who are awaiting spiritual care are the Falls for the fact that they are free not strictly beautiful possear por everyday commonplaces of every re-pain:

the old much dreaded aches and anality, he explains; and those not from ligious publications There le, then, joints or muscles, be it mild or sovere you have rheumatism in

blessed with either beauty or per the sphere of labour the field is it will be worth your while to

delay. You

"cinema quality" which enables

If

I still as white for the harvest as in Pille a fair trial without these sonality probably have that elusive

sitter

the day of Christ Himself. It is a can obtain them either direct and post them to photograph well. He is a very important difference at a time free from The Dr. Williams' Medicine most "human person, this when women are being warned off Co., 60, Kiangse Road, Shanghai, at, modern photographer. He has this, that, and the other calling in $1.60 per bottle, 18.00 for 6 bottles, or no objection to hi the interests real or supposed, of from chemists everywhere. But do taking up what she considers & their brothers and husbands.-

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